Major transport and comprehensive redevelopment schemes of the 1960's and '70s have resulted in very little references to the historic core was destroyed and replaced with large scale buildings at low density along widened streets. Consequently most of the central area is post war.

Some historic form remains from Victorian Gateshead, in particular the Bottle Bank area that includes the railway viaducts, the old Town Hall collection of buildings, regent and Walker Terraces, parts of High Street South and the start of the traditional Victorian terraced hosing to the south of the study area.